Entry Word: brevity

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 the condition of being short <the best quality a graduation speech can have is brevity>

Synonyms briefness, conciseness, shortness

Related Words abbreviation, abridgment (or abridgement), compression, condensation, contraction, curtailment; decreasing, diminishing, lessening, reducing, shortening, shrinking; abruptness, brusqueness, curtness; pithiness, succinctness, terseness; littleness, minuteness, smallness, tininess

Near Antonyms extensiveness; elongating, elongation, extending, extension, prolongation, prolonging, protraction, stretching; expansion, growth, spread; diffuseness, prolixity, talkativeness, verboseness, volubility, wordiness; bigness, bulkiness, greatness, heftiness, largeness

Antonyms lengthiness

2 the quality or state of being marked by or using only few words to convey much meaning <the importance of the lecture was matched only by its brevity> — see succinctness